Parents Quotes · Page 257

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were…

— Rachel Boston

In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement…

— Milana Vayntrub

Both of my parents worked incredibly hard, and eating out was a treat.

— Christina Tosi

I grew up looking at my parents as equals.

— Mona Eltahawy

I have five older siblings, so we were always sharing stuff. I think my parents did a good job of letting us…

— Declan McKenna

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

— Amber Riley

Plenty of times, trainers wind up taking on the role of surrogate parents.

— Teddy Atlas

I moved out of my parents' house to a place that's more like the projects, because I'm living by myself.

— Yung Lean

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

— Shruti Haasan

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents…

— Sufjan Stevens

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

— Gemma Chan

I was basically a rebel without a cause. And I got kicked out by my parents and ended up homeless.

— Bez

When I wanted to become an actor, I was afraid to tell it to my parents. But once, my uncle Chiranjeevi said…

— Varun Tej

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.…

— Caroline Knapp

I think it helped all of us that we had creative parents. They understood what it was like when a kid wanted…

— Michael Penn

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted…

— Rainn Wilson

My parents instilled something greater than myself. They instilled faith in me.

— Johnathon Schaech

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

— Jimmy Gomez

My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with…

— Winnie Harlow

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.

— Linda Perry